The Sun. — London, England, 1836-01-28 00:00:00

The other morning I was in the initizt of the Corporators. and I saw old fat Morrison, with a big gold chain round bis neck, waddling into the chair at a meeting, whilst the others all gathered round him, like hired mourners at a funeral.—( Laughter. ) I could not help saying to myself, I pity you, poor boys ! for your day is coming.—( Laughter. ) We shall have honest men in yew places next yeer— (Laughter)—and I hope to see that chain round the neck of Cornelius M` Loughlin.—( Loud cheers.) tie hen that is the case, there is not a roan whom he meets in the street but will tale? off his hat to Cornelius ill.Loughlin—( Loud cheers)— and Cornelius MeLoughlin will take eff his hat to such a citi zen in return, no matter how humble he may be.—( Cheers.) You seem to relish a laugh at the Corporation, and we "shall all augh when we play the " rogue's march" for them.— ( Laughter.) Why, we shall then be able to buy an Alder man's gown in Plunkett's Alley.—( Roars of laughter.) I will myself buy two or three of them for my library as shows. In England they have got corporate reform ; they have proved that t!tey deserved it.—( Cheers.) Why, it was an alderman who preeMed the other day at Liverpool at the meeting at which it was sletermined, to invite me to a pu bli c d i nner. _ (Hear and cheers.a Why did they in v it e me ? It was not out of complirneet to me, a mere working barrister—oee of profession, and owing m y success i n i t the people —having a to chance. Oh, it was not in compliment to me that the in vitation was sent. It was in compliment to you all. It was in compliment to the Irish people, and the compliment was heightened by the natural humility of the individual through whom it was paid to my countrymen.—( Cheers. ) That invi tation is a pledge that the honest reformers of Liverpool will work with you and for you.--( Hear.) I shall spend one day in Liverpool—l shall tell them that when I looked for repeal, I did so because I despaired of seeing justice done to Ireland— ( Hear)—but now if perfect justice is rendered, I will tell them that the repeal will be given up.—(A voice, " No, no, we wont% give it up ;" this cry occasioned some interruption.) Oh, said Mr. O'Connell, don't believe him, if we don't get it perhaps he won't be half so angry.—( Laughter.) I will abandon the repeal if they give us justice.—( The person said " No, no," and many exclaimed, owing to the disorderly spirit he showed, "Turn him ht.") No, said Mr. O'Connell, let him alone, he is ugly enough where he is.----( Loud laughter. ) Why put him ont ? May be not have his opinion? and I re spect him the more for expressing it ; but will he not let me have mine and express it also ?—( Hear)—particularly when 999 out of every thousand is of mine, whilst only the one is of his.—( Hear and laughter.) From Liverpool I go to Bir mingham. I dine with the honest Radicals there. On Thurs day I dine with the constituency, and on Monday I dine with the unrepresented. I hope to see the time when no man will be unrepresented—( Hear, and cheers)—but when every per son who is 21 years of age will have a right to the franchise.— (Loud cheers.) Ia offering to abandon the repeal, lam only trying an experiment. How often was I told that the Go. vernment could not do good for Ireland, because the repeal agitation prevented them ? lam going to try whether this was said in _truth, or as a pretence. —( Hear, hear.) For five years I tried to conciliate the Orangemen; but they cannot be con ciliated.—(Hear.) There are some honest men who have been deluded into their societies, who, I thought, might be influenced, but as a body they cannot be conciliated-4 Hear.) I know it. They are willing to sell their country. They sold it already as a dead carcase—(llear)—and now they are labouring to prevent it from coming to life, in order that they may feast and fatten on its remains. —( Loud cheers.) I have just recommenced my career of agitation ; and from this I pro claim it, that I never shall cease until that faction is put down for ever, so that it shall never more rear its viper head.__ (Loud cheers.) Igo to England to work out justice com pletely for Ireland.—( Hear.) If I get that justice, do you consent that I shall abandon repeal ?—( Cheerse) I put that question to the men of Kerry, and I got a reply in the affirma tive.—( Hear, hear.) I put the same question in Tuam, and I Hear.) I put the same quest i on i n got the same rep; n.--( Moate, and I got the eame reply.—(Hear.) I put it also to the honest men of the Queen's County, and they gave me the same answer.--( Hear.) I now put that question to you. I want you to strengthen me with vour authority, that I may go and tell the English people that - I am authorized to make that bargain with them.—(Hear.) Have I your authority ?—(One universal shout of, " You have, you have !") I promise you I will make no niggard bargain for you. You shall have full twenty shillings in the pound of the real national debt of jus tice. You shall have for your trades employment ; agricul ture in Ireland must be encouraged--manufactures must be e xtended—the corporations must be opened—and the bless ings of equal law must be secured to all.--(" Hear, hear," and loud cheers.) What excuse can any man give for refu sing Irish corporate reform f Or, if it is refused, can any man turn round upon us, and condemn us for agitating the repeal, particularly as we now say, give us cor porate reform—give us justice, and we don't ask repeal ? ( Hear.) It is thus that the English can buy us off; they cannot bribe us, bet they can buy us off with justice.-- (Wear.) That justice we must have, from them or from our selves—from that side of 'the water or upon this; we must and shall have justice.—(Lond cheers.) lam going there with seven millions at my back--(Hear.) Every halfpenny has two toss-ups : I will say to them, " head I win, harp you lose."—(Laughter and cheers.) In the first place I will en deavour to obtain justice through the Eeeelish themselves; but if it is refused, I shall then strike up the harp and " Erin go bragh."—(Loud cheers.) Mr. O'Connell next alluded to the Reform Acts for England, Scotland, and Ireland. Ire land got a miserable Bill. • The Scotch got an excellent Bill, and well they deserved it. He did not know the Scotch until he saw them, and now he could not tell how he loved that intelligent people. But the franchise in Ireland was bound and tied up by the Irish Reform Bill, owing to the appoint ment of the Tory barristers, who successfully threw every ob stacle in the way of registering liberal voters, whilst they were as pliant and smooth as possible to the Orangeists.—( Hear.) Why, we had actually, during the last registration, to get more than a hundred of our claimants to serve notices through the Conservative agents, and every one of them was admitted. ..—(Laughter and cheers.) I have done every thing in my power to get a better Reform Bill for Ireland ; I wrote and spoke in the House upon it; I went on a deputation to Lord John Russell upon the subject, and I convinced Lord John Russell ; but the conviction which I established was re moved by Stanley, one of the bitterest enemies that Ireland 411,91' had.—( Hear, and groans.) I went to Lord John Russell a second time; Sir John Newport was with me, and he left all the talk to me. Unaccustomed as lam to public speak ing, I ventured that day to argue the point with Lord John Russell. I believe that I succeeded in convincing him, and all would have been right, were it not that Stanley remained behind, and blotted from Lord John Russell's mind all that I had said ; so that the only improvement we afterwards got in the Bill, was the trifling one of the twenty years' franchise. --(Hear.) I spoke upon this Bill in Parliament ; I wrote upon it in the papers, for I have a pen for the newspapers.-- ( Laughter.) I published five lettere in the Morning Chro nicle, and I afterwards spent 301. in getting them printed in a pamphlet, a copy of wieich I sent to every member of Par liament.—( Hear, and cheers.) I did my best, but it was of no use; we had not then raised the repeal cry—(hear)---they were not afraid of us, and Stanley is always brave when he has to deal with those who are quiet.—(Laughter. England has got an excellent Corporate Reform Bill ; Scotland has got an excellent Reform Bill—there could be no better. The Scotch Corporations had been as bad as those of Ire land. To be sure, they were all of one religion in Scotland, and they had not in the Scotch Corporations that religious' cant and bigotry which existed in the Irish.—( Hear.) They were free from that hypocrisy which had prevailed here, and though they robbed and plundered as the Irish Corporations did, they did not. like them, turn up th e whites of their eyes to heaven, whilst they put their fingers into the pockets of the people. Every good Bill that went before the Lords was spoiled by them. The Lords spit in the cup, and the English Corporation Reform Bill was half dishonoured before it left them. You know the splendid triumph which democratic liberty has obtained in England.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Irish corporations were worse than the English. In spite of his angry friend there, who had interrupted him, was any thing ever so bad as an Irish corporation ?—( Hear.) A coun tryman in Tipperary was asked whose house that was on a neighbouring hill. " That," said he, "is Colonel Tegg's house." " And ;vitae sort of a man is Colonel Te,get ?" was the next question. "Oh !" said the countryman, "he is worse nor the devil."—(Laughter.) " Well, hut who lives in that Louse?" " One Colonel Pepper, and he is worse nor Colonel Tegg." That is to say Colonel Pepper was worse than Colonel Tege, who was worse nor the devil. —( Hear, hear, and laugh ter.) That is the way with our Corporations. The corpora tion of Cork is worse nor the devil, and the corporation of Dub lin is worse than the corporation of Cork, which again is worse nor the devil.—( Loud laughter.) What can be plainer to a man of common sense that nothing would be so strong an ar gument for the repeal as a refusal to concede corporate reform to Ireland.--( Hear, hear.) Scotland has a good corporate re form, ar.d if the Legislature refuses to extend the same advan tages to Ireland, blacken my face with a burnt cork—( Laugh ter)—make a negro of me, and let me live like a slave in Ireland, rather than bear the port of a freeman, and live under such gross injustice and arrant oppression.—( Loud cheers.) We all contribute to the expenses of the State. We contribute as the English or Scotch do, and why are we to be excluded from any of the benefits of the State ? There is one great secret in politics, and that is to be right. —(Hear.) Now, we are right, our enemies are wrone— ( Ilear)—and being right, with all that is good and virtuous with us, we shall kick out the Corporators before three months are gone, if we are but true to each other.—(Loud c h eers .) That will be a pleasant day for Ireland.-_( Laughter and cheers.) I remember when emancipation was obtained, many persons came to me and wished to have bonfires and a general illumination. I said no 1 for after all, it was no more than a kind of sectarian triumph. I said we would do nothing which might give offence, an d seem like a triumph over the Irish Protestants ; but the success of the Corporate Reform will do as much good to the honest Protestant as to the Catholic.—( Hear.) At present no good Protestant is admitted into the Corporations ; they even hate sue e ll e a s Protestant worse than they do a thorough Papist_(clt e and laughter.) Oh, it will be a glorious day when we achieve the national triumph, in the celebration of which both Protes tant and Catholic can join.—(Loud cheers.) It is then, please Cod, that eve will see bonfires and the general illuminations. —(Cheers.) When I last had the pleasure of addressing you, I felt as much as man could feel, the readiness, the anxiety, and the eagerness which you manifested to afford to my advice, I will not use the strong word obedience, but compli ance.—( Hear.) It was when a brutal assault had been com mitted, and a man had been beaten to death in the discharge of his duty. With all the influence that I had, I conjured you cot to let the offenders escape, and before I had finished speaking forty-eight hours, one of the guilty parties was apprehended and brOught to punishment.—( Hear, hear.) I experienced great delight, when I found the people acting thus on my bumble advice. Remember that one single crime greatly weakens our cause and strengthens that of -our enemies.— ( Hear.) We got emancipation without one drop of blood, and ithout a single tear, except those which were shed by the monopolists, whose monopoly was wrested out of their hands. Small blame to them for weeping.—( Laughter.) If they can they will seduce the people from their obedience to the law.—( Hear.) Prevent them ? If their emissaries accost you maintaiii your character of loyalists, and take them at once to the police w lio will be sorry to see their friends in sncli a dilemma.—( Laughter and cheers). This morning a clergyman called upon me and informed me that in Townsend street there is a house in which they are organizing secret societies. Some men of honesty and integrity may be caught in their wiles, am! to prevent :t I now give this win Mug.— ( Hear.) They aro organizing societies of the worst descrip tion. I denounce them here, I warn you against them—(i fear.) They well know that I am currently and even minutely in formed respecting them, when I state that they have two sets of books, one for the police to see, and the other which they cannot see.— ( Hear.) This society originated in Meath. When my son was candidate in that county, the Hon. Randal Plunkett marched at the he :d of 200 Orangemen, with pistol in hand ; and it is well known there that men who were rib honmen were hired as his partizans--( Hear)—to take part against ray son.—( Hear, hear.) It appears that -some of the ramifications of these illegal societies in Meath have now found their way into Dublin.—( Hear.) They come to prolong the slavery of the people by playing into the hands of the Tories. —( Hear.) Oh, how much would Peel and that faction give to have a few facts concerning these societies to bring before Parliament. What was the good, they Would say, of sending Lord Mulgrave to Ireland ? What good did he do there ? I'll tell vou. He will not allow an avowed Orangeman to be a Lord 'Mayor.--(Cheers.) He will not allow an Orangeman to be a High Sheriff; but he will do plain and equal justice. —(Cheers.) If a prisoner be improperly sent to jail, he will liberate him.—( General cheering.) How stupid you Irish men are, for you will understand even half a word.—(Ap plause and laughter.) But I have an apology to make to you. When I read in the newspapers that Mr. Reynolds was con victed, I at once thought that the report could not be accurate —that it had been improperly given. Who were the witnesses whom he produced on this trial ? Why, they were the ma gistrates of the police, never very much inclined to favour us. Then the peace officers, and Town Major White ; those very authorities whose duty and business it was to preserve the peace.—( Great cheering.) Now, I read the report and I did not perceive in it that a single remark had been made on that most material circumstance in the charge to the Jury. Ido not say that is was not made, but certainly the newspaper reports had it not. Yet how could a Judge omit so important a point in his charge ? If it were given, what else could it be but telling the Jury that Mr. Reynolds was guilty of keeping the peace, and not guilty of breaking the peace ; therefore that he ought to be convicted of keeping the peace, and found guilty of preventing the Orangemen from breaking it by a riot.—( Laughter, cheers, and hear, hear.) When I read the account, I had it in my mind to apply to the Lord Lieutenant by memorial on the subject.—( Hear.) I actually went more than once to my desk, and took up the pen for that purpose. But I was induced to relinquish that, my first intention, throtigh my opinion of the high-minded Lord Mulgrave, who, I felt convinced, if be thought it right him self, and strictly consistent with the principles of justice to discharge Mr. Reynolds, would do so voluntarily and of his own accord ; but if he thought it would be wrong in him to do so, he would refuse it to my solicitation, or that of any other man. But he did discharge Mr. Reynolds.—( Cheers.) Was I right in my opinion of him ? Long life to Lord Mulgrave.—( Immense and long protracted cheering.) It was said by our enemies in England, that indeed Lord Mulgrave would be intimidated by the Orangemen here. Oh, how much he is afraid of them I—(Laughter.) No; Lord Mul grave's Administration had proved itself too strong for all the efforts of the faction !—and if his Lordshipswanted help, and came down here, he would get it. Let• every man who would give it to him hold up his right hand.--(This call was instantaneously responded to by an universal show of hands, accompanied with tremendous applause, and a cheer for the Coburg-gardens.) The Orangemen say that you are dis loyal men. Now, was that not a very disloyal cheer for the Representative of the King—a disloyal cheer that you gave for the source and fountain of justice ? 0, never has there been so loyal a people as Irishmen.—( Loud cheers). They must have heard of the father who desired his son to say grace, and the son replied no, for I have had a bad dinner.— (Laughter.) But the next day the son had a good dinner, and he said grace twice.—(Laughter.) . That is the way with the Irish. They had bad usage, and plenty of it, and had refused to say grace for it ; but now that they were treated better, they would say grace twice over.—( Hear and cheers.) This, after all, was genuine loyalty, and those were disloyal who would weaken the best foundation and security of the King's throne, by diminishing or crippling the happiness of his people.—( Loud cheers.) They talked of Russia, and boasted of its power; of the autocrat's millions of subjects, and his vast extent of territory. But if ever the English standard were reared in the sacred cause of Poland, let them look to Ireland, and in forty-eight hours they would have one hundred thousand Irishmen, to carry dismay into his councils, and dire defeat into his ranks.—(Loud cheers.) Talk of his power, talk of the great British empire being cowed by him ; they had only to destroy the Orange mis creaney, and let every Government be what Lord Mulgrave's was ; they had only to give us a Lord Lieutenant like him for every day in the almanack, instead of letting us have such a One merely on a festival as it were ;- they have only to do thiS, and woe to the hordes of Russia, if they dare attempt to touch a single shred of the robes of our Sovereign, or to entrench upon any of the rights, possessions, or privileges of our com mon country. Hurrah for England.—( Vehement cheers.) — But ere this can be securely relied upon, the ingredients of mi sery must not be thrown into the cup of Ireland's fate.— (Cheers.) The people must be employed, the farmers must be comfortable, the population must be well fed and well housed ; our commerce must spread its sails over every sea ; we must have fair play and plain justice; we must no longer have shooting police—( Cheers)—we must have no Orange juries, no Orange sheriffs, we must have no Orange judges— wc had them once, I don't say we have them now.—( Laugh ter.) We must have all this—it is for this lam struggling, that the active, friendly, honest, and enthusiastic people of Ireland may lend their powerful aid in consolidating the strength and upholding the power of this vast empire.—( Loud cheers.) To obtain this, we lay our differences aside ; we cease to urge abstract questions ; nay, we even put practical ones for a time into abeyance, in order that we may the better prove ourselves the stanch and unflinching friends of a good Government.—(Loud cheers.) I must now come to busi ness with you. At present there are, I believe, in Dublin no less than three registration clubs, of all of which I believe I am President.—(Cheers.) I wish to see all these clubs combined—( Hear, and cheers)—in order that there might be no weakening of their powers by those little jealousies which are inevitable in separate bodies, however honest, even though they are aiming at the same end.--( Hear, hear.) It is easy to prevail upon a rogue to give up his jealousies, but an honest man cannot be so easily persuaded, because he entertains them, thinking them to be honest and proper.—( Hear, hear.) Stubborness is the great characteristic of honesty. I hope that the three clubs will be united, and as I am President of them all, I will consent, as my shoulders are broad to bear away all the stubborness and feelings of jealousy which may have existed, in order to combine the whole with greater efficiency for the common good.—( Hear.) There has lately been a dinner at Belfast, at which that prince of mountebanks, Emunerson, who calls himself Tennent—(Lau,ghter)—was present. He has changed his name, and small blame to him, for he got a fine fortune by doing so, and I believe he would change his name to any thing for a little of the ready rhino.—(Laughter and cheers.) I - remember when this man was a fiery Republican, but now he is an Orangeist. He was just as loyal then as he is now.—( Cheers.) He wears a big wig —oh, how I should like an attested copy of it.—( Laughter and cheers.) He boasted at Belfast of the strength of the Conservative interest there. He may boast as he will, but I assure this Emmerson, at the neat election, lie will be kicked out by the name of Tetinent,—(Laughter)—and when relieved from his senatorial cares, he may spend his time in combing that wig which he values so much, and which I believe to be worth more than all his political exertions.—( Loud laughter. At that same dinner there was the son.in-law of a Judge—( Judge Burton—Sow \Vest was his name.—(Laughter.) He boasted that his party had 6181 —mind the ,1--over ua at the last registry. Now, at the late election, we had a clear majo. rity in votes given of 236, and be ides these we had upwards of 1,000 ready to vote, who, from valiona er,uses, were not brought up, the delay being occasioned by hesitation as to the oath, and as to their not having paid their taxes, which, by tho bye, was no legal impediment at all.—( Hear.) Now, even if Sow West had the 618 and a half which he boasts of, he might take his change out of the 1,000 who were ready to vote, and the 236 who had voted.—(Bear.) Yes, let him take his change out of that. —( Laughter.) On the registry of the past year we have advanced 914 ; they have advanced 1,020 ; but out of these we must take upwards of 60 of ours who were registered under their name—(ifear)—and we have 1,369 no tices of valid claims to register, served for the next register.— ( Elear.) There, Sow West, take your change out of that. (Loud laughter.) If, which I do not think will be the case, the present Ministers are obliged to dissolve the present Parliament, I have no doubt I shall find many men, who were before my furious enernies, acting very kindly and courteously towards me.—(A voice exclaimed, " Alderman Smith.") Oh, poor man, he is called at the Board the "sorry Alderman ;" he has no malice about him, and, I dare say, if he had known at the last election that the Tories would so soon go out of power, he would have acted very differently.—( Hear.) The Alderman lost the toss; head I win, harp you lose.—( Laughter.) I am, indeed, de lighted and proud when I reflect upon the manner in which you have listened to me when I talked of England buying Ireland off with justice. I protest I am more delighted than I can express at the confidence which you have placed in me, by authorising me to say to the English people, " Give us justice, and we won't press Repeal." I am more delighted at this than if all the Kings of the earth had covered me from head to foot with all the memorfala, and orders, and stars and garters, which they have it in their power to bestow. —( Cheers. ) How delighted I shall be when I tell the people of England that the operatives of Dublin—that the Trades' Political Union, who would be most materially benefitted by the pre sence of a Parliament in this city, have had the calmness and intelligence, the good sense and the conciliatory feeling, to authorise me to say, that they will forego all the advantages which the Repeal of the Union would secure to them, if they can but get for their fine country fair Way and justice.--( Loud cheers.) How delighted I shall be in describing the sacrifice which they have thlis iiia47; and how forcibly - will such a fact act in their favour upon the high-minded people of Englai - A—( Hear.) What will they think of the operatives of Dublin, wtso thus consent to abandon so certain a means of increasing their own resources, for th e p urpose of obtair.!.n.,,cr for their country nothing but simple ;uskticc.—(Loud cheers.) I confess I am delighted at this'.--Cheeri.) Irishmen are remarkable all over the world for their talent, exiergi ? and their disinteredness.—( Hear. ) Wherever justice is ren dered to talent and to mind, there my countrymen--exiles though they be — arrest t h e eye o f a d m i rat i on an d bear away the palm of excellence.—( Loud cheers.) In Ireland our talent and enterprise has been cruelly dealt with—they have been marred in their progress, and the lofty wirings of na tural genius have been checked by a sense of national degrada tien.--( Cheers.) But new the head has become rightly in formed : the heart has ever been in its right place ; the head is repudiating the jealowies which were always uncongenial with the Irish heart, and now that we have both the heal and the heart right, if we only persevere, I promise you that you soon shall see our native land— Great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.' Mr. O'Connell sat down amidst the most rapturous applause, which was continued with earnestness and for a length of time, which we never before witnessed. Mr. RCTIII:F.N rose amid general and enthusiastic applause. He had, for several days, endured some pain, lest lie should not he able to meet his constituents there that day. But, since that, he felt an exhiliration of spirits at the prospect of, from renovated health, having it in his power to attend on the pre sent occasion. He was proud of being one of the Members of the Trades' Union, and after some further observations, eulogising the zeal and activity of the Union, the lion. Gen tleman sat down amid general applause. Mr. P. COSTELLO proposed the next resolution, declaratory of the necessity of totally abolishing tithes. lie had wit nessed the bloody scenes which the attempt to extort tithes from the people hail caused to be exhibited.—( Hear.) He had seen-fourteen or fifteen persons, young boys, old men, and aged women, lying slaughtered in the streets of Newtown harry, all of whom had fallen in the collection of 2/. 10s., or 21. 125.—( Hear.) There was no rescue—there was no at tempt at rescue. It was alleged that there was, but the evi dence on the inquest disproved the allegation. The speaker commented at some length upon the circumstances connected with that bloody fray, and particularly upon the statement of the person in command, that he had said not " fire," but " oh fie" when he heard the firing , . The tithe system had shed more blood in Ireland than had flowed in any other cause. He had seen that blood in streams, and his feelings were so ex cited at the bare recollection of the carnages which he had wit nessed, that he dare not trust himself to speak upon the sub ject. He should therefore merely propose the resolution, which he did amidst loud cheers. SAMUEL ROBINSON, Esq., of Clara Mills, King's County, next addressed the meeting. He was glad to hear from those who had already spoken so good an account of them. They were the main-spring of the liberty and independence of the city.—( Cheers.) Dublin was not so oppressed as the rest of Ireland, but still they had ministers' money and other imposts which they should not be called on to pay. He wished tithes to be abolished, and the voluntary principle to prevail.—. (Cheers.) It must come to this at last. The war against tithes had long been carried on.—( Hear, hear.) It was now more than 100 years since his great grandfather was seven years in gaol rather than pay this unholy impost.—(Loud cheers.) He was from the King's County, and they had determined there to let their cattle be driven, and to let the very bed be taken from under them rather than voluntarily pay tithes.—(Loud cheers.) They had seven millions of Irishmen opposed to tithes ; they had seven and a half millions of British Dissenters equally opposed thereto.—(Cheers.) Thus they had fifteen millions opposed to six, and could they donbt of success ?—( Cheers.) He concluded by saying, that of the Irish Episcopalians not more than fifty thousand did not cheer fully pay tithes ; he believed that they had three-fourths of the whole rental of the country in their hands, and yet they were so indecent as to send begging-boxes throughout Eng land to support their clergy.—( Hear, hear, hear.) But begging was not their only . object; they sought, under pre tence of describing the spiritual sufferings of the clergy, to prolong the Orange and Tory power.—(Hear.) But in this and in the retention of their hold upon tithes, they would most certainly be deceived.—( Loud cheers.) Mr. Tnomas REYNOLDS, who had been frequently called upon during the proceedings, was here obliged to come for ward. He said he was labouring under indisposition, and the increased effect which the reception he had received made upon him rendered him totally unable to acknowledge it. He did not expect such a reception for so humble an indi vidual, but he took it as a warning from their high minds to their task-masters, that the Irish love of liberty will make them throw the mantle of their protection over even the awould dst not sufferingsdcheers.) h ee r ys i n stitheexchanges? Mr. humblest, when he has been treated with i n j us ti ce. _ ( Vehe ment cheering.) He was not proud of the v i n di cat i on of jus tice in his person so much for his own , sa k e as f or t h at of the people.—( Cheers.) Their reception o f hi m h a d more than t r h ep ei a r id ea h n i s._4 his poor H l e a a b r o , u h rs e ra,nadndh'e might er s) He add, ou that Reynolds reception for the spoke judgeship someof D length oher t y. - upon h (Lo tem. When he and his friend Costelloe came out of Kilmain ham they forthwith began to beard and brand tyranny— (Cheers)—and here was he just out of Newgate, with his de termination renewed to put down the Orange oppressors of his country—(loud cheers)--and to exert every constitutional means for the salvation of the people.—(Loud cheers.) They must have tithes not payable by law—they must have Corpo rate Reform by law—they must have a good jury bill by law; and they must have a salutary system of poor laws for Ire land.—(Cheers.) They must have the grand jury box purified, for Catholics were not emancipated, and honest Protestants were their fellow-slaves, so long as an Orange sheriff could pack an Orange jury to dispose of the lives, liberties, and property of the public.—( Cheers.) There was one question upon which his views were unchanged—he meant repeal. ( Hear.) But he would leave that in the hands of tfic great pOlitical physician of Ireland, and whatever he prescribed. respecting it that he would follow.—(Cheers.) The trucu lent Shaw said at the last election, what have you done with repeal ? This was the answer, "we have laid if aside for a time, to put you and your gang out"—( Laughter and cheers) — and to support to the death the Melbourne Administration and the Government of Lord Mulgrave in Ireland.—(Great applause.) They had neither place nor power to gain by this. They had no other stimulus than the love of justice which swelled in their hearts, for those who would protect the people from religious oppression, a legal tyranny, and be a surety to the nation that the horrors of '9S should not be re. newed.—( Loud cheers.) As to Lord Mulgrave, look to his acts ; to his magnanimity. He lips bearded the faction to the teeth—( Hear)--and in my person he has proved his love of justice. Whilst in Newgate, I never put my hand to paper : I was importuned to do so : I was pressed to memorial the Viceroy, but I would sooner have gone to the scaffold. Did any body apply for me ? No ! It was his own magnanimous act—an act which makes my heart big with gratitude for the sake of the people.—( Loud cheers.) Let us then rally round the present government ; let us put down secret societies, and not permit the Paddy M'Kews, who will be sent amongst us, to destroy-our hopes and give new life to the Tories, by seducing the people into crime.--( Loud cheers.) No man can stand back—he must be active; the crisis demanded it. " Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land." (Mr. Reynolds resumed his seat amidst great applause.) D. APNeviN, Esq., proposed, and Mr. ARKINS seconded, a resolution, declaratory of confidence in, and thanks to, the Lord Lieutenant. It was most cordially received. Counsellor GUTHRIE proposed the next resolution. As an . . Irish Protestant, he could not but say that the calumnies now spread in England, by the itinerants against the Irish Catholic clergy, were grossly unfounded—( Hear)—because they pro tected their flocks, like faithful pastors, from the ravages of the wolf, they were called " political priests."—(Cheers.) In Mayo, his county, Dr. M'llale had protected them from the wolf; from bribery and perjury, and for that he was branded as a political priest.—( Hear.) As a Protestant, he was proud of this opportunity of bearing testimony to the virtues of those who were so unjustly aspersed. —( Cheers.) After eulogizing Lord Mulgrave, the Learned gentleman concluded a speech which was frequently cheered. Mr. WILLIAM M‘GUINEFS seconded it. Mr. Wit.t.tam MARTIN could give the flattest contradiction to the boast of Mr. West at Belfast. The Conservatives, to make a show, had actually registered some men twice over— (Laughter.) He concluded by urging those for whom no- „ • tices had been served to be in attendance from Monday next, and that then there would be such a majority fur the loyalists, that the Orangemen would not dare at the next election to make even a show of a contest—( Loud cheers.) __ _ Mr. S. A. CURRAN bore testimony to the services of Messrs, Martin„Rafferty, and Healy, which the meeting appeared most gratefully to recognise. He afterwards gave a laughable ac. count of the puffing tricks in Saunders resorted — to by the Tories, to make it appear that they bad a triumph, and con cluded by announcing that Johnny M'Crea denounced Mr. West as a traitor for not going into a rebutting case before the election commission. The meeting then separated, giving three hearty cheers for O'Connell, three for Lord Mu'grave, three for O'Connell and Ruthven, the Trades' Union, and three hearty groans for the Orangemen. (Abridged fr4rn the Dublin Morning Register of Tuesday.) O'CONNELL DINNER AT MORRISON'S. Yesterday this splendid entertainment took place in Mor risson's Great Rooms ; and although about 350 persons sat down to dinner, it is to be regretted that arrangements upon a more extensive scale could not be made, to prevent the many disappointments which occurred. Upon this point, however, no blame can be attached to the Committee ; for we understand that they made application for the Round Room of the Rotunda, but could not obtain it. Applicants for tickets to the amount of sixty, were, we understand, reluctantly refused ; and we know that so much as three pounds each were offered for tickets. Shortly after the hour appointed, (half-past six o'clock), the chair was taken by the Earl of Miltown. On the right of the chair sat Mr. O'Connell, Sir Richard Nagle, Bart., M. P., Sir Thomas Esmonde, Bart., Christopher Fitzsimon, M. P., George Evans, M. P., Sergeant Woulfe, M. P., J. J. Bagot, Castlebagot, Leland Crosthwaite, D. L. On the left sat the Hon. E, Lawless, Cornelius O'Brien, M. P., E. S. Ruthven, M. P., Richard Sheil, M. P., James Power, M. P., 0. D. Grace, Mantua, Henry Arabin, George Roe, Stephen Grehan, Sir Francis M‘Donnell, John M‘Donnell, Bank Director._ if, AV, Barron, M.P., Vice President. Through various parts of the room, amongst others, we ob served the following :—Sir Percy Nugent, Cornelius M‘Lough lir), John Arabin, Edw. Croker, T. O'Meara, William Mur phy, Ignatius Callaghan , James Murphy, of Cork, Ch r i s t op h er M‘Donnell, Williara iiiweetman, Edward O'Cono r , Ballina gare, Waldon, Rathgare, J. H. Shell, Westmeath, Thomas Dixon, Robert Power, Clashmore, John Power, M. D. R. Pigott, W. E. Hudson, H. G. Curran, M. Thunder', R. Sausse, John Busby, Hobert Haig, Patrick Sweetman, John Sweetman, Laurence Finn, David Lynch, John Dillon, Mount ahton William Houghton, —...._ Dillon, James figti , Kearney, Miltowti-Edmond rower, F. W. Conway, Col.Lunnis, L: T-House , James,Amllfeun,ariTnh,olteliogognteoyn, John Malone D. R. Kane, Ebenezer Jacob, F. A. Codd, Henry THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1856. Hutton, John Lawless, .1. Shoe Lalor, Cornelius Lyne, John -- Wisdom, W. Sterne Ilartc, Green 2, Mi chael Wahhe, John O'Neill, Michael Staunton, Richard Bar rett, George Blood, John Redmond, -- Cur wen, J. Scott Molloy, Esqrs., &c. &c. We seldom—indeed we are sure we might say never—were present at a more delightful scene, or one more rich in promise for the welfare of Ireland. When we looked round upon the men who composed the Meeting—when we saw the old and the young—the Repealer and the Whig laying down their differences at the foot of their country's altar—when we wit nessed hands clasped and clapped in Intim', too lung unfortu nately estranged, we felt, indeed, as Mr. O'Connell remarked, that the wall of separation between Irishmen was broken down, and our hearts beat response to the moral oath then sworn upon the altar of our common country, that minor points of political speculation sltould never again divide the honest hearts of Ireland. On the cloth being removed, the usual loyal toasts were drunk, after which, The CHAIRNIAN, in proposing the next toast, said—This is the first time I ever presided .at a public assembly ; and I I must therefore beg that indulgence which is usually extended under such circumstances. I really have, besides, for some time past been, and at this moment am, labouring under se vere disposition. However, gentlemen, for the moment I feel my task to be an easy one, having but to pronounce a name which must cause a responsive burst of applause in every bosom to which liberty is dear or tyranny hateful.—( Continued cheer ing.) I speak of a man whose love of country is only to be equalled by the gigantic efforts he has made, the power of mind lie has displayed, the almost magic influence with which he has wielded that power, and, in a word, the enormous ta lents lie has so incessantly exercised in endeavouring to pro cure for that country her welfare, happiness, and peace.— ( Renewed cheering.) I have only to pronounce without note or comment the name of—O'Connell. (It would be needless to attempt to describe the enthusiastic manner in which this toast was received and done honour to.) Air—" Sprig of Shillelagh." The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, Mr. O'CONNELL, on rising to speak, was prevented for some time from proceeding by the repeated cheering of the assembly, which terminated with " one cheer more," and " again." Of his first sentence We were unable to catch the precise words. We understood him to commence by saying that he rose to make a speech— that he never prepared one in his iife—but that he was deter mined on coming into the room to make a speech that evening. I hail in this assembly—l hail in your Lordship's admirable but over-flattering mode of announcing your opinions, the omen of better days for that country for which I have long struggled, which I have ever loved, and for which I will con tinue to labour as long as she may need my humble services. —(Loud cheers.) Your presence here proves this. It proves your sanction if not to the past at least to the present. (Hear, hear.) It proves your hearty concurrence in the efforts we are making, in the pursuits we are now following, and in the ardent hope and certain expectations of the future.— ( Hear, and cheers.) You are not rallying round me—you are rallying for Ireland.—( Cheers.) We have many shades of reformers. Some of us were, perhaps, over-violent, while others were a little too tame and squeamish ; and, between both, Ireland was not remembered as she ought to have been, and therefore was not made what she ought to he. A new era, however, has opened. The time has come, and this d a y proves, it, when Irishmen of every class—when re f ormers o f every class can feel that they have one common maxim under which they should rally for the good of Ireland—for the support of the King's Government, as a means of obtaining that end, arid when they can join with the honest Reformers of England and Scotland for the common cause of consti tutional liberty.—( Cheers.) Oh ! I look upon the present day as a new era in Irish history. We have come together to swear upon the common altar of our common country that dissensions shall never disunite us again—(Loud cheers) — that the aristocracy of the land shall take the foremost and most dignified station—that the gentry will rally beneath the flag of the Irish aristocracy, and that the universal people shall shout " Ireland for ever !"—( Hear, hear, and long-con tinued cheers.) Yes, my Lord, I own that one of the fondest dreams of my earliest youth was the nationality of Ireland.— ( Hear, hear.) I never gave up the fondling of that hope for a moment ; but, at the same time, have determined that there should be a full experiment of a general and central Government, and that it should be proved to demonstration that that Government would not confer all the advantages to which Ireland is entitled before we should seek to be go verned by ourselves._( Cheers.) While making that expe riment I often thought, and often said, that it would be a futile experiment, and that the elements of success were not in us ; but I confess I am changed in that opinion to-day —( Loud cheers)—for at this moment, combining with me those whom I have around me, my opinion must be changed. I.now declare that I do conceive the elements of success to be within us—that we are able to succeed in this experi ment, and that we must obtain or extort justice.—( Hear.) I repeat, my Lord, ye have it within your own power. You have only to say it, and the universal Irish nation will rise, not like a giant refreshed with wine, but like a youthful giant in all the gaiety of health; in all the mildness of infancy, and with that gentleness which becomes the fairest and softest part of the creation, but at the same time with all the firmness that becomes the most manly heart and determined man that ever fought in the field of battle.—( Loud and enthusiastic cheering.) What is it we require? Why we require to have that-great foundation of discontent, the tithe system, settled. —( Hear.) That must be settled': and satisfactorily settled, for until a nation of seven millions be exempt from the payment of parsons for the benefit of others, as they arc from doctors or lawyers, her people cannot be content or happy. There is not, a man amongst us, however strong may be his own opinions, whether Protestant or Presbyterian, or Catholic, that would not, ,I am sure, be - ready to concede to the principle laid down by the present Ministry, that the spiritual wants of' the peo ple should be supplied.—( Hear.) What we require then is merely this, that the surplus, after these wants are sup plied, shall be appropriated for purposes of national edu cation and the general improvement of the country. The settlement of the question to which I have just alluded is imperatively necessary for the tranquilization of Ireland; and when I see the party that are now rallying round the Irish Government—when I see that excellent Nobleman, the Re presentative of our Sovereign, administering justice with im partiality and firmness—(.Cheers) —when I see that scion of the house of Howard, who does honour to the name, and even to the noble blood that flows in his veins—when I behold the people rallying round the king's Government, with no other view than to procure the pacification of the country, I do not despair of the settlement of that question during the next Session, or of justice to Ireland generally.—(Loud cheers.) It may be six or twelve months distant, but certainly at the end of one year it is impossible for the question not to be settled.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) Well, what d o w e requ i re next ? 'We want a full and Corporate Reform.—( Cheers.) Without that we arc not only an aggrieved and afflicted, but an insulted people. I put it to every man whether any country could be so_insulted as Ireland would be if we did not get a full measure of Reform ?—( Hear, hear.) Scotland and her close Corporations—they are gone. - The people have been let into the management of their own affairs • in deed, one would think that the good sense of the p eo pl e of Scotland would lead to that conclusion. It did so, and now they have the management of their own cities and towns.—( Hear. ) England also fought, and against odds, for there was a great and most foul attempt made in the House of Lords to render the English Reform Bill as useless as possible. But the in gredients of good government, in spite of this hostility, was thrown into it, and the people of England shewed the sense they entertained of the value of such government, and their own independence, in insisting on a better one, the result of which is, that the English Corporation Bill has worked well in favour of liberty.—( Hear, hear.) The Kamschatkans, in their roving and savage state of life, have no more connection with the rest of the world than the corporators of Dublin have with Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) You may have your sheriffs here to pack juries, so long as our corporations remain close. I have been too long in legal practice not to know how often a client has come to his legal adviser, and told him that he had been defeated ; and he has been asked in return, " How is that possible ? your case has been well got up, and you have had a watchful attorney, which in such matters, be it remembered, is always of the most essential service. You may not have had a complying judge, hut he has been neither a ' Brother Bother- . . _ ington'—(Laughter)—nor a Norbury.'"—" Oh," he says in reply, "the sheriff has managed the panel, and has taken care to pack it with corporators."—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) Why you may laugh ; but is there a man who hears me that does not know it?—( Hear.) Had we not an instance the other day when a man was found guilty of keeping the peace.— ( Hear, hear, and laughter.) To be sure he recived a mit gated sentence ; and at the end of nine months he would have come out of Newgate, I suppose, a full, fattened alderman. The nine months' imprisonment would have sufficed to pro duce that miraculous transformation.—( Renewed laughter.) But, luckily, we had a Chief Governor in the country, who has won the hearts of the Irish people.—( Hear, hear.) That act (the Hon. Gentleman alluded to the case of Mr. Rey nolds) presented a characteristic feature of the family to which Earl Mulgrave belongs. It showed that there was a friend of benevolence and sound judgment there combined with un shrinking firmness.—( Hear, hear.) It would be hard, indeed, if the efforts of such a man in the difficult task which he sus tains of Koverning this long-distracted island, did not secure him a return of lasting gratitude from the Irish people.— (Renewed cheering.) Here, then, we have established for u s, by the short-sighted bigotry of our adversaries, a per fect case of Corporate Reform.—( Hear, hear.) It is to seek this, with other national benefits, that I now pro. cbcd to England, strengthened by my elevation on the broad basis of popular support ; and this powerful assembly, which I see before me, warrants me in saying that I go with the Corinthian capital, composed of the. elite of society, topping this fabric, which is constituted of humbler, but, at least, equally solid materials, and forming altogether one great and unshaken pillar, which is destined to support the liberties of Ireland.—Loud cheers.) Igo to plant my foot steps, first, in that town which has been dignified by the bene ficent working of the Municipal' Reform Bill—(Hear)---1 go to meet one thousand men, who, in Liverpool, have gained the triumph over the accumulated corporate abuses of centuries. From Liverpool I will proceed to Birmingham, and there I will be entertained at no less than two public dinners not in one day, for that would be a piece of Irish extravagance— (Laughter)—but two dinners on separate dayq—a dinner from the constituency on the first 44y, and from the unrepresented portion of the pommunity on the second. I'll tell all how com bined we are ; how determined we are, by a vigorous and con stitutional union, to support his Majesty's Ministers in their opposition to that party whose every effort is directed to the prostration of the liberties of the people of these countries, and to demand that justice shall be dgrta to ireiand.—( Hear and Pil9el l 9 rollieto whichl7(e have to .;ilve is one of 1 tho utmost simp icit , collt44Pi PO sha4o w Of . difficulty ; it has nothing about it which requires to be disembarrassed. It is then—justice to Ireland !—( Hear and cheers.) Is Ire land to become a species of Botany Bay ? Are we to be worse than convicts ?—( Hear.) I have the utmost unanimity of opinion expressed by the several classes of my countrymen in the neg-ative. I need not impress upon this assembly the claims which his Majesty's present Ministers possess upon your support. Your very coming here proves that you are sup porters of their measures.—( Hear.) I cannot for a moment hesitate in expressing my conviction, that you all concur with me to the fullest extent in the propriety of giving our decided and most ardent support to the present Administration.—( Hear and cheers.) But this has been called a base and unprincipled coalition. What ! a British Government for the first time does justice to Ireland, and the Irish Members are not to support that Government ! What vagabonds these Tories arc ! Of what materials is the faction composed ? It is baseness with them to do justice to Ireland. To maintain the liberty of the subject, and to give security to life and property is baseness. But what else could be expected from the mem bers of a party who for centuries have perpetuated the reign of injustice and misgovernment in Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) Not content with a systematic contamination of the grand jury box, they have corrupted the very Bench itself. In for mer times, we had at least good judges. It is, alas no ra rity now to see these exalted functionaries proclaiming them selves the partisans of the Tory faction.—( hear, hear.) On the one hand, then, I contend that there is nothing base in a British Ministry exerting itself for the amelioration of Ire land ; and on the other hand, it is equally ludicrous to assert that there is any thing base in our yielding to such a Mi nistry our cordial and unflinching support.—( Hear and cheers. ) Bitter and unrepenting sorrow is the secret of all the gross fabrications which arc, day after day, accumulated by the fac tion.—( Hear.) Our hearty concurrence in the projects of men who have the good of Ireland at heart they term a coalition! We have not coalesced with the Ministers up to this period. I deny it ; but we are going to England now for the purpose of coalescing with them. We proclaim our intention, let them prate of treason as they will.—( Cheers.) lam anxious in the extreme for the coalition, and they shall have my most stre nuous support so long as they act in accordance with their present principles.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) And that, I believe, will be so long as they continue in power.—(Enthusi astic cheering.) The reform of the Corporation of Dublin is a measure which has the sanction of all whom I have the ho nour of addressing.—( Hear.) Some of us may he desirous to go further than others might wish ; but we are all journeying on the same road, and the object, which we all share in com mon, is to arrive in safety at the temple of liberty.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The work has been already commenced so auspiciously that I cannot form too favourable :an augury of its future progress.—( Hear, hear.) May I not be permitted to consider this as the first day of a new era for Ireland ; of that era which shall be characterised by all succeeding ages as having presented a firm combination of the three king doms of England, Ireland, and Scotland, rendering the throne of this empire the most secure in the world. Yes, for it is based in the hearts of twenty-four millions of freemen. That combination will make the monster of the North crouch beneath it.—(Hear.) He talks of his fortress at Warsaw ; he dares to threaten the extermination of the Pelish people. Oh ! let but the present prudent and able Ministry continue at the head of affairs in the British empire, and though a hundred thousand warriors were necessary for the extrication of Poland from her thraldom we will produce them.— (Cheers.) Ireland is united to his Majesty's Ministers by the bonds of affection and by the love which Irishmen haie long maintained for an impartial administration of justice. God forbid that she should ever be bound to England by any other links than these.—( Hear.) Let this constitutional combina tion be rendered perfect; let its full expansion be given to rational human liberty ; place the sacred and legitimate ex pression of the democratic principle on the broad basis which is composed of twenty-four millions of freemen, with Scotland in the van, England in the centre, and Ireland in the right wing; though their position should be changed, still, under the fostering hand of a ' reforming Legislature, they will be found to be the same in reality; the throne is secured beyond the possibility of danger, ';and liberty becomes eventually triumphant. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman sat down amid the most enthusiastic cheering. He again rose in a few seconds, and said—l am sorry that my prescribed duty imposes upon me the necessity of proposing a toast which I would rather give from the spontaneous effusion of my own gratitude. I will give you the health of our Noble Chairman.—( Loud cheer ing.) It affords me the highest delight to see him here, se parating himself in some degree from his order to mingle and combine with the people. We have another sprig besides—a youthful flower, appertaining to the same class. (The Hon. and Learned Gentleman alluded to the Hon. Mr. Lawless, Lord Cloncurry's son, who was seat e d b es id e t h e N oble Chair man.) It is with heartfelt delight that I hail this his almost first public appearance in the cause of his country. lam not a very skilful physiognomist; but I think I can read in his countenance that, if another '9B should come, another Lawless will be found who would in such an event prove himself equally firm in defence of the liberties of the Irish people, and equally detested. by her tyrants.---( Hear, and cheers.) Mr.i O'Connell concluded by saying that the Noble Chair Man, 'and the Hon. young gentleman who was seated beside him, would have the gratitude of seven millions of Irishmen for this public demon stration of sincere patriotism. The health of the Noble Chairman was then drunk with nine times nine. The ,Noble ,Chairman returned thanks. . CHAlRMAN—.Gentlemen, the next toast on the list ,suggests an old saying, that " there never was a people to Whom jus tice was more dear than the IriSh nation." To this source alone can be attributed the great popularity to which his Ma jesty's Ministers have attained in this cotintry.;—( Hear, hear. ) I defy their greatest enemy to point out one single benefit which has been conferred by them exclusively upon one portion of his Majesty's dominions, without a -desire expressed upon their part to extend it to the rest.—( Hear.) I give you, with all my heart— " Lord Melbourne and his Majesty's Ministers." Air— " Auld Lang Syne." The toast was received with rapturous applause. Messrs. Woulfe and Sheil were successively called, but nei ther Hon. Gentlemen rose.. The CHAIRMAN said—You have received my last toast with enthusiasm. I have no doubt of the manner in which you would receive this toast, even though it were not connected with prosperity to Ireland, a prosperity with which his Lord ship is intimately identified. " The Lord Lieutenant, and Prosperity to Ireland." This toast was received with tremendous cheering. Mr. J. D. MULLEN having announced that Mr. Sheil, M.P. would return thanks— Mr. SHELL rose and spoke as follows :—My Lord Miltown and Gentlemen—l feel personally grateful to the Government for the valuable services that they have conferred upon the country, and for the still more valuable intentions they are known to entertain, and which will, I trust, be soon realised in the concession of further benefits.—( Hear.) The next toast from the Chair was— " The Duke of Leinster and the resident Peers of Ireland." Air—" The harp that once through Tara's Halls." The CHAIRMAN—I give you, gentlemen, " The friends of Ireland in the House of Commons." Air " Nora Creina." There was a loud call for Mr. Sergeant Woulfe and Mr. Sheil, but the Learned Sergeant having left the room, Mr. Simi, rose to speak to the toast. He said—lt is alleged that there is a majority of English members upon the side of the Conservatives, and that Government is supported merely by the Scotch and Irish members. This suggestion is not founded in truth, for in 1831 the question of reform was pressed with as much force, though with somewhat of less acrimony than at present. I would entreat the attention of the public to these facts, and I am satisfied that it will be secured through the me dium of this great assembly ; if it be said that the Melbourne Administration is sustained solely by the Irish and Scotch members, I should be glad to learn by whom was the Grey administration supported, and the great measure of parliamen tary reform carried in 1831 ? In 1831 a dinner was given to Lord John Russell, at which I had the honour of being pre sent. On that occasion the present Lord Stanley, the then Secretary for Ireland—but I thank my God no longer so— declared, and I shall be happy to avail myself of an opportu nity of recording it to his memory, that there was a debt of gratitude due to the English members, but that a permanent debt of' obligation was due to the Irish members, for by. them was the great measure of reform achieved.—( Loud cheers.) Away then with the idle assertion, that the Melbourne administration exclusively has been supported by the Irish and Scotch members.-_( Hear.) In 1931, the Irish members saved the Government of Lord Grey. In 1832 they carried the great measure of Reform, and in 1835 they helped to carry the Reform of the English Municipal Corporations. Should not some return be made. by the English people for the vast and incalculable obligations under which they have been placed by the Irish Members ? What do wo ask from them ? That we should be put upon a constitutional footing with them ; that if there is to be a union, it shall be one of equal rights and privileges. Good God ! shall it be said that the Irish Members, who have accomplished these goat objects for others can effect nothing for themselves. It is impossible but that we shall prevail ; and even if the Conservatives should succeed by the machinations which they have so profoundly and skilfully laid, the period of their success will be brief. The Irish Members are sixty-three in number, arrayed in one firm phalanx, having but one object in view, led OH in Par. liament by a can of surpassing eloquence, who realizes in his person the panegyric of Milton, being one of th ose " who wields the w ill o f t h e fi erce democracy." It is by that demo cracy—potent in its numbers, rendered fierce by wrong, but docile when kindly treated—it is by that powerful engine, wielded by a gigantic arm, that the wrongs of Ireland must be redressed. For Ireland there is much to hope for the future, and in the past much that is glorious to recall. When out of Parliament we burst through the portals that were closed against us, and broke down every obstacle that was op posed to our rights as citizens and as freemen. If we then overcame the almost insurmountable difficulties that lay in our path, if' we have surmounted the Alps, shall we now, with plains before us, abandon the glorious object of our desires ? —(Cheers.) Where is the man to be found who will be proved guilty of such treacitPry to his country ? We are united, determined, cigd 'powerful in our combined strength. The Cooseryatives feel that they cannot stand before us ; the know it in their hearts, they ;re filled with the conscious ness of it.—( Cheers.) Ise' 'kW, however, while wo are pane.. gprising ourselves, flot forget to render complete the weans necessayy to attain success. The Reform Society is a happy commencement of that union between all classes of Reformers, who have at heart the real, interests of the country and ftom the meeting of thi s n - 7 7igUt. X anticipate the most salutary and precious results. We have a skifful pilot on board; we have an engine 9f sPygn power—(cheers)—and we have belOlY (..kgk those who can throw in the elements for wexing it. Having undertaken to return thanks on f,he, part of. the Irish members, I will only say, in conclusion that pdiinq by • the past and the present, of a you may form anticipations - splendid future. We have been true to you, we are true t; you, and we will remain true to y ou f or ever. —(T re mend° ll cheering.) '1 ha CAAIRAIAN would give, without further preface, " 1,o: d Cl o n currv , an d th e res id ent l an d holders of I re land'" The Hon. E. LaLAWLESS returned thanks. The next toast was— - " The Reform Municipalities of Great Britain, and an - mediate and thorough Reform in the Municipal Corporation of Ireland." The CHAIRMAN said, that although it was not the privilege of that unfortu na t e animal, an Irish Pee r , t o i nter f ere in elec tions to the Comm ons H ouse of Parliament, it was natura l t hat lie should have feelings upon the subject. He would give them'" The Reform R eg i stry Association, and may it effect; objects, the union of R e f ormers and the extension and in ue ' pendent exercise of the elective franchise." The CHAIRMAN next gave— " The City and County Representatives." Air 4 , Sprig ° I Shillelagh." o Mr. F. S. RUTHVEN, M. P., returned thanks. It Mr. FITZSIM M ON, . P., n ex t rose , and was received W h - loud cheers. He said—My Lord Miltown, 'tis a happy an glorious day when th e p eop l e and the aristocracy are united' and what do the people now require?._( Hear, hear.) T hel tell me, in the first place, to endeavour to heal past difference * to demand liberty for my country, and to procure a total ab lition of the base imp os t w hi c h has deluged the fields of t his country with blood. These things, as the servant of the peop le, I will strive to do. —( Cheers.) Mr. GEORG E E VANS , M. P ., rose amid general applause and said—My Lord Miltown and Gentlemen, we are of all classe s Protestants, C a th o li cs , an d Di ssenters, Repealers and AT,I- Repealers, j o i n i ng i n an un i versal hostility to the party whie has endeavo ure d to e ff ect the degradation of our conialAe, , country.—(Loud cheers.) W e are threatened with a sPee " advance of these Tories to power—with a disputed successitl a civil war ; but I t rust t h at these calamities will be altogethe r averted by such meetings as these.—(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of " Richard LSI° Sheil." This toast was received with the utmost delight, and equal l y responded to. Mr. Slim returned thanks. The next toast was " A Free Press." The noble Chairman's health was again toasted, having been proposed by Mr. O'Connell. Great acclamations followe d ' The Nobl e L or d, at twe l ve o ' clock, retired from the chair, fe'. lowed by Mr. O'Connell and many others. Mr. RUTHVEN was then called on to preside, and the convi viality of one of the most remarkable meetings ever held 1° Ireland was kept up to an advanced hour of the morning. ACTION AGAINST THE CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE KING S 0 BENCH.— The p resent act i on was brought by the applicant Oil his own behalf for a libel reflecting upon his character as,. barrister, of th e utter i ng of which the Chief Justice of the King's Bench had been guilty, in his capacity of a Benche r i The damage s were l a id at 100,0001. The Judges were e ll unanimous that the application of Mr. Rowe to have a deslr ration su c h as t h at w hi c h he brought forward received, show' be refused. TITHE BILL.—The Archbishop of Dublin's intended * fi n . Tithe Bill is g i ven up, a counter recommendation havists been got up by the Dean of St. Patrick's and the Archdeacon of Derry. So, we have here exhibited a very pretty split. MURDER AND VIOLATION._On Saturday last Mr. Thorn° Gamble, Coroner, commenced holding an inquest upon t he body of Mary Mullowney, the countrywoman who was fit% dead at Drumcannon on Friday morning. The followig the result of the inquest :—" We find that the deceased Alt Mullowney came by h er d eat h on the night of Thursday, t,.",Y", 21st of January, 1836 , b y b odily violence inflicted on her K Thomas Flanagan, of Ballycarron, in the parish of Kiltirl cleague, and that Timothy M'Carty and John Tobin assists' in removing the body, and concealing her death."—Wat er. ford Chronicle. NEW HIGH SHERIFFS.—John O'Brien, Esq., is to be HIB h Sheriff of the county Clare this year, the three names return'' d on the Judges' list having been passed over. He is, howere t 4 a gentleman of hi g h c h aracter and independent fortune. 1W; O'Brien was Chairman of the public dinner to Lord M u lgrav j at the Commercial Buildings in this city last year.—Limeric Chronicle. Charles Dawson, Esq., is appointed High Sheriff of ltfl naghan, though hi s name was not on the list of three selecte and Anthony Stoughton, Esq., is appointed High Sheriff u ` Kerry. CLONMEL ELECTION.—We believe w e may announce w ilt certainty, that th ere w ill b e no contest for Clonmel, and tha t Mr. Stephen Rice, eldest 'son of the Chancellor of the iExche quer, will b e re t urne d w i t h out opposition, We may add, of this most desi ra bl e resu l t h as been secured by the starting " Mr. Rice, who will have the entire popular support ; and sell ral influenti a l mem b ers of the Society of Friends, althongst friends to Mr. Bagnell, would be unwilling to vote agail t Mr. Rice.—Dublin Post. KING'S COUNTY.—The outrageous and grossly indece. o conduct of the Oi ange squ i rearchy of the King ' s county,la regard to th e new Ch a i rman, Mr. Gibson, has necessar i ly , to the decided proceeding on the part of the Government de scribed in Lord Morpeth's letter. THE TITHE CAMPAIGN.—WC learn with the deepest scorn° that the bloodhounds are again on the scent, and that the tor' rents of blood which have been poured forth by the Irish peop le as yet to cease l," in opposition t o thi s accursed impost, are not flow.— Waterford Chronicle. TIIE CASE OF ST ARVATION.--On the me- e choly case t o w hi c h we called attention, a corre sponaenca has taken place between the Poor Law Commissioners a n i.e the Deputy C oroner . M r. Chadwick, Secretary to the Commissi oners h as b een di rected to state, " That by tm law the overseers o f • t h e poor are still responsible, as b ere, e , tofore, for givi ng re li e f to persons in a state of destitunat By the 54th sec ti on o f t h e Poor Law Amendment fet; the overseer is required in cases of urgent necessity 0 give su c h t emporary re li ef as each case shall require,be% articles of ab so l u t e necessity, but not i n mone y, a nd they the appli can t f or relief be settled in the parish W" - a ll he shall apply f or re li e f or not.' Necessary relief was cs , that could l ega ll y b e g i ven to the pauper before the ing of the Act, and to necessary relief under the Act still remai entitled. Th e respons ibi l i ties for neglect duty on the ns parts of the officers entrusted w ith the nistration of relief are increased by the Act, and the rev' lation s o f t h e Commissioners provide additional facilitire for the re li e f o f those who are proper objects. " We a inform e d t h at the Commissioners have directed inquiries to be made into the circumstances of the case. ---- --- The Journal de la Meuse announces that five per' sons were frozen to death on the roads in different Coor instant, of th a t d epartmen t, i n t h e n i g h ts o f 15 t h and 16,11 in co nsequence o f a severe f rost a f ter a h eavy ra w Their clothes were saturated with water, and then CO lr gealed, so as to inclose them in a case of ice. 0 , LI (ADVERTISEMENT.? —T. COX SAVORY, ~oLus•---- Milt ilf &c., 47, Co rn hill, L on( on, informs the Public, that he bale considerable variety of SECOND-HAN D GOLD WATCHES' any of which he offers at EIGHT GUINEAS each. They 111 °.: all been carefully overlooked, and are warranted.—Watches P °. chased in exchange. 111 TIl S. On the 22d in s t., i n B runswick -square, Brighton, the l _ A „ aw of Lieut.-Colonel Grey, of a son. On the 27th inst., at Croydon, the lady of William E. Ferre l ' Esq., of a son. On the 25th i ns t., a t B rook -green, Hammersmith, the za•• , J r Of the Rev. E. Wickham of a son. L ea On the 25th i ns t., at N orwood-hill, Surrey, the wife of Wilson, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th inst., the lady of W. C. Macdougal, Esq., of $ I°Pf still-born. On the 26th inst., in Upper Stamford-street, Mrs. Lawreo re Engstrom of a daughter. On the 24th inst., at St. Stephen's vicarage, the lady of Use r ° T. B. Edwards, of a son. On the 24th inst., at Brookfield Lodge, Mitcham, Mrs. E. W r°°d of a daughter. On the 26th i ns t., at W orthing, the lady of R. E. Cumberlaad, Esq., of twins, a son and daughter. On the 27th inst., the lady of H. Browning, Esq., of a son. rt . On the 26th i nst., i n Bernard-street, Russell-square, Mr, • - W. Powyss, of a son. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., the Rev. John Usborne eldest son of Usborne, Esq. ' of Woodl an d s , Surrey, to Emil ' yJane, eldest d a ug l " ter of th e l a t e Rev. J. Bond, Treston Rectory, Suffolk. On the 25th inst., the Rev. John Bishop, tutor of ton College, Upper Holloway, to Frances, widow of the late Richar d Arnold, Esq. On the 27th inst., at St. Paul's, I 3 all's-pond. Mr. J. S. Nrnrl ' of Can on b ury-square, to Emtna, second d aug h ter o f M r. Willis"" Collins, of Higlibury-park. On the 19th inst., at, St. Marylebone Church, W. K. W"st'er, o f Esq., of th e Madras Artillery., to Sarah Eliza, e ld es t d aug hter W. Y. Ottley, Esq., of Devonshire -street, Portland-place. DIED. On the 22d i nst., at Lambeth, Mrs. J. T. Judge, of a ( laugh° , r which su rv i ve d b ut a few hours. On the 27th inst., John Ferrier, Esq., Admiral of the Blue, in his 77th year. On the 24th inst., at Bath, Mary Anne, wife of Major-Gene t° Davy, of Tracy Park, Gloucestershire. On the 25th i ns t., i n B urton -crescent, Margaret Hannah, 0 nit daughter of A. Amos, Esq., Barrister-at-law, aged 4 years a nd 3 months. On Tuesday last, M r . J os h ua E vans, many years in the WOO' of Messrs. Gibbon and Roe, of Walbrook. On the 27th inst., at Hillingdon, aged 86, Mr. Thomas Grattan' late of Shoreditch. On the 19th inst., at Cranford-lodge, Middlesex, Richard F ur' cell, Esq. On the 20th inst., at Oxford, aged 23, John Claxton Savag e, 8.A., of Oriel College. On the 24th inst., a t Milf ord Hants, aged 24, Anne Smith, the wife of J. D. Wil son , E sq. - On the 22c1 inst., at Chigwell.row, Eumenes Moore, Esq'' his 81st year. in On the 22d inst., Mr. Robert Jordan, of Christy's Cottage' New-cross, aged 64. On the 99th of August, at Barraekpore, aged 36, Capt. Br ° " 1113 Wood, of the 10th Native Infantry. On the 23d i nst., aged 19, Thomas James Wheeler, eldest 90° of Mr. T. Wheeler, Regent -quadrant. relict or. T. Jackson, aged 85. dau On the 2:l'oi. inst., at B r ighton, age d 28 , M ary Travers, e ldest gLjer of the late T. Solly, Esq., Blackheath. 4d 0 4 g• Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of 34 119, St ran d, at The .5 . 14 u Office, No. 112, St ran d s i n t h e C°4 o : 7 of Middlesex. N